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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 860 vs Snapdragon 888 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 860 Vs Snapdragon 888

Snapdragon 860
VS
Snapdragon 888
Snapdragon 860
Snapdragon 888
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 vs Snapdragon 888 SoCs by Qualcomm. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 860
50
Snapdragon 888
73
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860
41
Snapdragon 888
52
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860
75
Snapdragon 888
82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860
55
Snapdragon 888
69

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
  • Snapdragon 860 has 4.23% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (2960 vs 2840 MHz).
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
  • Snapdragon 888 has 24.44% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (840 vs 675 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 50.02% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 860 (3200 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has -28.57% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 860 (5 vs 7 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 74.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 860 (808 K vs 464 K ).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 860.
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 50.01% higher memory bandwidth then Snapdragon 860 (51.2 vs 34.13 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 860
vs
Snapdragon 888

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860
463958
Snapdragon 888 +75%
808495
CPU 143028 211734
GPU 179320 306250
Memory 69420 133870
UX 72190 156641
Total score 463958 808495

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 860
744
Snapdragon 888 +51%
1126
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 860
2616
Snapdragon 888 +41%
3681
Image compression 142.85 Mpixels/s 177.1 Mpixels/s
Face detection 20.3 images/s 26.5 images/s
Speech recognition 44.55 words/s 67.7 words/s
Machine learning 46.35 images/s 59.9 images/s
Camera shooting 22.85 images/s 37.5 images/s
HTML 5 1.65 Mnodes/s 3.96 Mnodes/s
SQLite 777.9 Mnodes/s 1060 Mnodes/s

3DMark

27%
SD 860
40%
SD 888
Score: 5126

Stability 98% 91%
Graphics test 20 FPS 30 FPS
Score 3455 5126

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Display

Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 3840 x 2160
Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
HDR HDR10+ Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit Up to 10-bit
Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec. 2020

  CPU

86%
SD 860
82%
SD 888
Frequency

Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 1800 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2960 MHz 2840 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache - 512 KB
L2 cache - 1 MB
L3 cache 2 MB 4 MB
Process 7 5
Transistor count - -
TDP 10 W 10 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 640 Adreno 660
Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 600
GPU frequency 675 MHz 840 MHz
Execution units 2 2
Shading units 384 512
FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 1720 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 24 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Hexagon 780
Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
Video capture 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
2000
Snapdragon 888
2500
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
5000
Snapdragon 888
7500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
316
Snapdragon 888
316
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
1200
Snapdragon 888
3000
Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G X60
4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 22
5G support Yes Yes
Peak Download speed Up to 5000 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Peak Upload speed Up to 1200 Mbps Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.0 5.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Announced Date April 2019 December 2020
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8150-AC SM8350
Official page Snapdragon 860 official site Snapdragon 888 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
CPU
65%
GPU
41%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

47.75


Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
CPU
73%
GPU
52%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

51.75


Review By TenzysTech

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